COURTHOUSE — A Franconia man who claimed to have a “pornography addiction” will be under court supervision after admitting to possessing child porn when a relative discovered one of the computer-generated images at his home.

Carroll Jay Goshow, 59, of the 300 block of Harleysville Pike, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to five years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of child pornography in connection with a December 2010 incident at his home.

As a condition of the sentence Judge Richard P. Haaz said Goshow can have no unsupervised contact with children.

Court documents indicate an investigation of Goshow began on Dec. 15, 2010, when a relative of Goshow’s reported finding at Goshow’s home a photograph, in the discharge tray of a computer printer, depicting a female child lying naked on a beach. When the relative confronted Goshow about the photograph he allegedly said, “What do you want me to do, I only look I don’t touch,” according to the arrest affidavit filed by Franconia Detective George H. Moyer III.

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Police subsequently interviewed Goshow about the incident.

“In his statement he did admit to having a pornography addiction and that he did have pictures of naked children on his computer,” Moyer alleged in the criminal complaint. “He also told me that it was not pornography because the subjects were not engaged in sexual activity. He also told me that the websites he visited produced a disclaimer that this was not pornography.”

When computer forensic experts examined Goshow’s laptop computer authorities uncovered about 236 views or photographs of naked children in various locations, according to the arrest affidavit. Most of the photographs were of young females, with some males being photographed, police alleged.